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Set 1
The 3rd to last show of the tour opens with a nuclear blast of lava to the face with the trio of Fluffhead, 46 Days and MyFe.
Fluffhead isn't anything special but is absolutely full of energy and
played acceptably tightly and is a wonderful start to any show. 46 Days
is yet another head smasher version. Staying firmly type one this one is
like a steel mallet just shoving your head into the ground and smashing
your skull into pieces. The peak is extra mighty and girthy and seems
to last several glorious minutes. If it feels like it goes forever in
the best way. Must hear!!
MyFe is 16 minutes in slot 3! The jam begins by quickly going into a
really cool and patiently building rhythmic groove. Tom Tom overload,
anchored by Page's piano plinking while Trey slowly builds a solo on
top. Really awesome, this is pretty unique imo. Definitely some extra character to this one. They
take their time building it until around the 12 minute mark they all
sync up and the jam explodes like you expect it do, delivering 46 Days
peak finale 2.0. The peak jam keeps going however and slowly devolves
awesomely into a really cool laid back, almost tropical zone. This MyFe
basically faaadddeessss to a synth laden, psychedelic conclusion....wow.
Dude, this crushes. Absolutely must hear. Holy crap. Total x factor all day.
One of the greatest things I've ever heard in my life occurs next -
after MyFe slowly dies it's ambient death, extremely perfectly, they
sliiiidddeee straight into Rift, almost as if it were just another part
of the jam. THAT TRANSITION WAS THE TITS!!!! Rift is excellent. Rather midtempo but everyone nails their parts and it delivers. Heck yes.
MyFe>Rift. Go hear this now.
The old school awesomeness continues with ANOTHER 14 minute Gumbo! Can you guys believe the glow up this song has had this year?! Anyway,
this is another complete must hear. This version sees the regular
jammin slowly evolve into the most majestically soaring peakage. A
ridiculous cap to this jam. Total bliss heaven in the best way. Holy
smokes what is going on this set is just destroying. AND THE PEAK JUST GOES ABD GOES AND GOES AND GOES AND GOES AND GOES!!!! WHEN IT WILL STOP NOBODY KNOWS!!! 
THIS IS FRICKIN AWESOME!!!!
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They always seem to pull all the good stuff out in one show it seems.
And up next we continue that trend with Pebbles and Marbles! It ends up
being nothing special but it's a very nice and powerful reading that is
always great to hear.
Up next we get the first Army of One since 2023. Excellent as always in great to hear even if it's nothing essential tonight.
What is essential is the following version of Ya Mar. Must hear, Treys solo is beyond exquisite!! Easily one of the finest solos he's played in the entire year hands down. Wow!
The set closes on an excellent if an extraordinary note with strong versions of The Wedge and Walls.
All in all this was a fantastic first set. Not a weak link in the
chain! They came out of the gate on fire tonight, energetic and
inspired!!
The MyFe>Rift, Gumbo and Ya Mar are the essential pieces of music for
the set in my opinion. Not much more to say just go grab this sucker
it's awesome.
Set 2
The second half of the show opens with an inspired choice of a 13 minute
Energy. Unfortunately you can skip this - the jam is very aimless and
there are many times where it seems like they are about to take off but
it just kind of fizzles out instead. It goes out there but it's not
exactly good if you will. Trey sounds lost for what to play throughout
and is AWOL for a lot of it. Definitely not a great jam in my opinion.
Skip straight to the following 28 Tweezer instead!!!!
Personally I'm not the biggest fan of this jam. Most would call it
excellent I guess I would too, but it's way too "meandering soundscape
building" for my taste. It's a personal thing on my end. It's very much a
jam to zone out to without a lot "going on". It's better than I'm
making it seem like so don't listen to me! This is a really weird
jam in a bad way - Trey is asleep at the wheel, barely doing anything.
But at the same time the jam has incredible flow and the band are locked
in with each other. It's like a worse version of the 12/30/19 Tweezer
or something - the music isn't that great but the playing and the band
themselves are on another level. The jam does get rather
powerful in the last five or six minutes and I will admit has a pretty
decent finale but the same time you're still left with the feeling that
this was a below par experience overall..
Dude, what the corn.....
Unfortunately, the following 14 minute Ruby Waves is only marginally
better. From the get-go, the jam get stuck in a boring and meandering
bliss zone for way too long. Trey is just asleep at the wheel to the
extreme - did he take a clonidine or something before this set?! Slowly
it builds and it does achieve a pretty good finale on the whole I can't
give this more than a B+ or so.
Man this is the most disappointing set in forever. If you looked
at it on paper you'd think this would be the set of the year but in
reality it's just.... Not great.
Thankfully they keep the energy going nicely with an 11 minute No Men.
As with the rest of this tepid set Trey is just asleep throughout, until
the final few minutes when he actually wakes up and the song rages to a
proper close. Good stuff - I'll take what I can get with this!
Right out of No Men they segue unexpectedly back into 5 minutes of, dare
I say, excellent Tweezer jamming. The best 5 minutes of the set so far
hands down. 
excellent funkiness gives way to rock peakage before winding down quietly and moving into a much welcome Waste.
Waste is terrific. MUST HEAR!!! Man this one is absolutely fantastic and the piano soloing on this is just heartbreaking....wow.
After a fake out set closer of Rock and Roll, we get an interesting
combo of Caspian into a must hear Bug with a Tweeprize to close.
All in all this was one of my least favorite second sets of the
year. I thought the back half from no men onward was actually quite
enjoyable, which is pretty funny. I'd say the COMBO of No Men through
Waste as well as Bug are must hear.
The less said about the big jams the better. Very disappointed in this
one Trey was just in la la land tonight. Personally I'd give the show
like an A for set one and a B minus for set two
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